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"Recently demobilized, Johnson comes to New Zealand shortly after WWI. He travels the country taking casual jobs and making casual friends, according to his 'system [of] hard work for the good time and never stay anywhere long'. The good times disappear...
"Nat Spiller, an admired climate change activist, has accidentally drowned. That's the police verdict. But was it an accident? His partner Ellie thinks otherwise. Pam, Ellie's aunt, draws a reluctant Lauren Foster into the mystery"--Back cover.
"Wikitoria, Chief Rawhiti's beautiful and headstrong daughter, a young Maori girl on the cusp of womanhood, is fascinated by the culture of the local European settlers, with far-reaching consequences for herself and her whanau"--Back cover.
eBook
"Sure thirty years is a long time. Sure the case was closed. Well, never really a case as such. Fifteen-year-old brown girl tops herself, who cares? Turn the page. That bloody notebook, thought Club. God knows what was in it. Who knew that little bitch...
An entirely new edition of Robin Hyde's wistful and engaging classic novel, first published in 1938 and in print ever since. The Godwits Fly vividly conveys the intensely felt worlds of the adolescent-love, poetry and England-and the enthralling but ...
"Seventeen years after the Fae destroyed the world, Adelia Lark must face them again. A boy has disappeared, stolen by Fae. Accompanied by the ruggedly handsome Ryder Hendrix, the man she’s secretly loved for years, she ventures through a broken landscape...
Audio CD
Fiona Kidman's early stories about New Zealand women's experiences scandalised with their vivid depictions of the heartbreaks and joys of desire, illicit liaisons and unconventional love. Her writing made her a feminist icon in the early 1980s and she...
Audrey is a psychopath and a serial killer residing in a small town in rural New Zealand. Audrey's three estranged sisters arrive at Tiromoana for their brother's funeral stirring up a dark family history of murder and deceit.
Audrey is a psychopath and a serial killer residing in a coastal town in the rural far north of New Zealand. Audrey discovers a drug cartel is using her Tiromoana Cabin Resort for cocaine trafficking. She appears to be helping the police when the drugs...
Audrey continues to operate a rural cabin resort in the far north of New Zealand. A beautiful author, Poppy, arrives at Tiromoana to write her true crime thriller based on the many local murders that have shocked the rural community over the past few...
When Audrey returns to New Zealand during the Covid-19 Pandemic her flight from the USA has a confirmed case of the virus onboard. The Government set out to track all passengers on the flight but Audrey has disappeared into the outskirts of rural Nor...
Thirty-one exhilarating new stories from the acclaimed author of deleted scenes for lovers.
"Brilliant and ambitious, Remezov is already recognised as the best earthquake predictor in the business. He travels to the ancient city of Hanemark to be received into the powerful Guild of Geographers, the youngest inductee in decades. On the way he...
A comic novel about the ups and downs of a wealthy white couple who live luxuriously on an estate in Canterbury. Pru and Guy are privileged parasites yet curiously innocent. On a whim, they fly to Samoa. Love, satire, sex and pratfalls follow.
" 'Zum Bullshitter geht der Preis' - so said the great German author-philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (1774). Or did he? Can we trust what we never quite knew about because we never quite got around to reading it...
"A guitarist dies, after writing the best riff of his life. As far as the Police are concerned, the death appears to be due to natural causes. But to Jareth McHendry, it is the sinister work of an evil Musomancer, and the start of a powerful spell that...
"After a complicated childhood and a traumatic past, Sarah Cook became the ultimate Good Girl. Her partner, the gentle and handsome Brian Marshall, has become her safe place; the stability she never received as a youth. . When the sophistically rough...
Cameron and Lisa Murdoch are successful crime-writers. They have been on the promotional circuit, joking that no-one knows how to get away with crime like they do. After all, they write about it for a living. So when their 7 year old son Zach goes m...
Set in a turbulent period of goldfields' history, The Nine Lives of Kitty K. paints a vivid picture of pioneer life as told by the sons and daughters of those who lived it and survived the terrible Depression of the 1890s. Kitty Kirk (1855-1930), arguably...
"In 1866, a brutal gang of ex-convicts from Australia left a trail of death, thievery and larceny across the goldfields of New Zealand. In the goldmining town of Greymouth, Inspector William Henry James, in charge of the police camp, attempted to prevent...
"An agent of Nazh-rndu'ul has arrived in the port city of Burhgat. He bears grave news - the Kjatmi'ir are already on the rise. Pinched between Nazh-rndu'ul and the Third Ring, Kha'atib must show no weakness and gather the armies. He must manipulate ...
Large Print
"Identical twins only look the same ... Beautiful twin sisters Iris and Summer are startlingly alike, but beyond what the eye can see lies a darkness that sets them apart. Cynical and insecure, Iris has long been envious of open-hearted Summer's seem...
"Up on the highway, the only evidence that the Chamberlains had ever been there was two smeared tyre tracks in the mud leading into the almost undamaged screen of bushes and trees. No other cars passed that way until after dawn. By that time the tracks...
The delightful third novel in the bestselling Gabriel's Bay series. Big trouble is brewing, secrets are coming out, threatening reputations and even lives. Outsiders are in town with questionable motives. Power and privilege are casting a seductive but...
Senior Nurse Amber leaves her medical clinic in the city following a late shift to grab a quick meal in the new Britomart Mall. Her window-shopping spree takes longer than expected. Hurrying to catch the last ferry to her home in Gulf Harbour, she is...
In New Zealand’s Martinborough, an ex-wine maker is murdered. The precise planning and execution by the unknown assailant begins a series of vile attacks.
In a small village, there are whispers in the market square that William is not who he says he is. They say he skinny-dips and talks to trees. He was once a doctor, but now he only prescribes books for Emily, Marco and James, whose lives have become ...
"When the Canterbury Earthquakes destroyed their city, Natalie and her friends were only ten years old. Too old to forget, but too young to be heard, they have never told their stories. Until now.Ten years after the earthquakes, Natalie returns to her...
"Zack thought he was ready for the apocalypse. He was not. Despite being uniquely talented, and with everything he has been through. The entire world still crumbles around him. Forces beyond his understanding are making their move. He must now battle...
"Amanda Steele and Jim Andersen have a mutual antagonism going on but even he is stunned to learn his sometime 'frienemy's' talent in singing has resulted in her being asked to go undercover once again, this time as a contestant in a national, televised...
"Laurel Windflower is a witch from a family of magic workers - but her own life is going nowhere. She works in a café, unable to produce anything more powerful than the most basic herbal potions. Until Marigold Nightfield knocks on her door. Marigold...
"It's the 1930's, and Stefan Francovic, a gambler and drinker, stumbles upon a secret and special place in the bush on the South Head Peninsula, known locally as The Bird's Nest, which mysteriously cures him of his addictions. Lindy Simmons, brought up...
"On a wintry day long ago, Renee Morgan walked into the snowy mountains of Lake Tahoe, where she met a man who changed her world forever. Now, nearly half a century later, she must face the facts of who the man was and, ultimately, face the Truth abo...
Buying a rundown motel to start a new life - what could possibly go wrong? In this funny and moving novel, prize-winning author Stephanie Johnson turns her wry eye on us. 'What a fabulous read. The story is fast paced, and unpredictable, it's smar...
"Alice is transformed on this journey. Nourished by the good heart of the local people and supported by the land and sea, she finally makes peace with the nightmares living inside her. The old, wiser Alice is now teaching Buddha Dharma. Her daughter ...
"A witch in the broom closet probably shouldn't be so interested in a ghost hunter, right? That Basil is a librarian comes as no surprise to his Mt Eden community. That he's a witch? Yeah. That might raise more than a few eyebrows. When Sebastian, a ...
Three women, Three cups of tea. Three new beginnings. Sarah Gardner's husband went to sleep one night in November and never woke up. At forty-years-old, the new widow is left to care for their three children, all of whom are under the age of five....
Matt Bullock, an Auckland university student clashes with his flying instructor Jason Collins who tries to hit on Matt's racy girlfriend Fleur Lassiter, resulting in the two men brawling at their aeroclub. Illegal immigrant Vladimir Zhukov, a ruthless...
"A compelling medical novel about facing one's demons, self-prescribing and finding the strength to carry on, even when it seems that all is lost. Anaesthetic Fellow Rory McBride is adrift. Since a routine procedure went horribly wrong, he has been plagued...
eAudiobook
A regular weekday morning veers drastically off-course for a group of strangers whose paths cross in a London café - their lives never to be the same again when an apparently crazed gunman holds them hostage. But there is more to the situation than first...
"Every week we would disinvent something. This week it would be plastic. Next week it would be the aeroplane. I stood outside the supermarket and handed out flyers, which people kindly refused as they left carrying large packs of bottled water.' The ...
"When Dawn awakens from her icy slumber, she can't recall who she is or how she became a prisoner of Eden Laboratories. But her uncontrollable power and the hope of belonging to a family compel her to act. Fast. But there is something dark that lingers...
"How many must die to protect the Queen's secret? A secret with the power to destroy the British Monarchy is used to blackmail Neville Chamberlain to sign the 1938 Munich Agreement, giving Germany the vital time it needs to prepare it's war machine. Now...
When Lucy discovers the body of her great aunt Kitty, with a puzzling note and empty pill bottles by her bed, she can't believe that the formidable woman who held her family together is gone - or understand why she has taken her own life. Lucy is determined...
"In Palmerston North, Aotearoa, an evil music wizard is messing with the fabric of reality, and the only person who can stop him is a bumbling guitarits called Jareth. Luckily, Jareth has a solid road crew to help him.: his scientist sister Rosetta, a...
"Audrey does not call it murder. She is just looking for the perfect tenant. Having lost everything; her fortune, her career and her youth, Audrey has moved to her family's remote seaside property in the far north of New Zealand. In order to survive....
Following the scandalous revelations about his love life, Harry Rose is searching for redemption. His daughters have taken over the helm at Rose Corp. But while Eliza's on study leave at Oxford, Maria embarks on a drive to rid the British media giant...
"A novel based on two socially separated families last years in London. One family of seven five-months' passage on the immigrant ship Bolton to Wellington 1839/40 to become pioneer settlers. Later their home next to the notorious Barretts Hotel at the...
"The fourth book, Revived, returns the setting to Brisbane, Australia, where Amy is abducted in a bizarre case of mistaken identity, leading to all manner of relationships, as a background to the planning of new inland cities. The building of these, draw...
"A new and young Queen of Britain and the Commonwealth has been crowned. Claudia has stamped authority on her role as ruling Queen, not reigning Queen, and dissident Commonwealth leaders have felt her severe hand. She is vey much a Queen of the people,...
"Two massive Pacific tectonic plate subductions, three volcanic eruptions send 30-40m tsunamis on to unsuspecting shores in the early hours of the morning. Pacific islands obliterated; the east coasts of New Zealand and Australia annihilated. Ash fills...
"A ship-load of chemical weapons is hit by a stray missile from a Middle Eastern nation. Oxygen eating gas, then radiation from abandoned nuclear power plants consumes nations, driving millions to remote southern hemisphere locations. For most their ...
She's the brilliant sculptor taking the art world by storm, a daughter of Samoa returning home. He's the fiery remnant of her past, who appears on what should be a night of triumph, weighted with dark secrets that could destroy them both. Can Teuila and...
"Hate. Contempt. The only emotions Murphy O'Neill is capable of. Hate for Elijah, the Werewolf who brutally and savagely killed his mate. Contempt for the Alliance, who allowed the murderer to escape. A string of gruesome slayings in Boston points to...
A compelling medical novel about facing one's demons, self-prescribing and finding the strength to carry on, even when it seems that all is lost. Anaesthetic Fellow Rory McBride is adrift. Since a routine procedure went horribly wrong, he has been plagued...
The first book of Mark Porath's trilogy Colour of Stealth was a mystery triller. It challenged us to think in more detail about our ancestors, and who they mght have been in reality ? Convicts extradited from England to Australia and New Zealand in...
"Having eluded his former masters at the Omega Agency and escaped his life as an operative, Nine has married his soul mate, Isabelle. Their 5-year-old son has inherited his unique DNA. Their lifestyle is shattered when their son is abducted for scien...
"Nicola, made homeless by a cyclone, is invited to join a conference in Nairobi, Kenya. While on a field day a colleague Des Tairoa suggests they start a tree planting project that day. This is easier said than done, when their efforts on the slopes ...
"Vincent needs a change. He's spent the last fifteen years in covert operations for the US government, but after a botched and fatal mission, he decides he's done with pulling triggers. He lucks into a dream job in Santa Barbara as head of security f...
New Zealand, 1878: Awaking from a chloroform-induced sleep in a remote underground cell, Sergeant Frank Hardy must search his compromised memory to discover why he has been imprisoned. Meanwhile, his fiancee, Mette, and his partner Constable Will Kar...
Greymouth, New Zealand, 1866: The Burgess gang was in town, and a young surveyor from one of the country's leading families had vanished in the back country. Inspector James has never forgotten that year. In the gold mining town of Greymouth, where drunks...
For the first time ever, the best short SFF from Aotearoa New Zealand is collected together in a single volume.This inaugural edition of the Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy brings together the very best short speculative fi...
An Irish immigrant has been missing from his home in Sandon, New Zealand for almost a year. And around the time he was heading home, a brutal murder took place in the bush. Was he murdered, or did he simply leave his family for another woman. Sergeant...
HE'S IN PRISON FOR A CRIME HE CAN'T REMEMBER When Sergeant Frank Hardy is kidnapped during a case and wakes to find himself imprisoned in an underground cell with no memory of how he got there and no clue who he has taken him, he must search his past...
War with Maori rebels is once more in the air in 1880s New Zealand. Sergeant Frank Hardy is training volunteers in Palmerston North but is more worried about keeping his wife, Mette, safe and keeping himself out of debt. When he is given the opportunity...
He was looking for bodies. He didn't expect to become one himself. Sergeant Frank Hardy is grinding out a living driving a Royal Mail Coach and playing rigged card games with a Chinese cook. Then he's asked to find two missing settlers. The job bores...
HE SURVIVED THE WRECK; WILL HE SURVIVE WHAT COMES NEXT? Low on cash, Sergeant Frank and his wife, each take on a task that sends them to the South Island by steamer. When the ship hits a reef on the wild coast of the southernmost part of New Zealand,...
Trapped by rising flood waters on his farm, and doing his best to care for his growing family, including his pregnant wife, Mette, Frank Hardy gives shelter to two other families. When one member of the sheltering families is found stabbed to death the...
Years of provocation and deception have incited the Emperor Trajan to restore the honour of Rome on the eastern frontiers of the empire. Shameful memories of past humiliations from broken treaties and the dishonourable losses of Roman legions compels...
"Em never imagined she'd use covert and shameless in the same sentence. Until she had nothing left to lose. Em Stewart is no pushover. She can hot wire a car, torpedo a beer in under ten seconds, and make the most curse-hardy trooper blush with her c...
"A brutal home invasion shocks the nation. A man is murdered, his wife bound, gagged and left to watch. But when Detective Sam Shephard scratches the surface, the victim, a successful businessman, is not all he seems to be. And when the evidence points...
"When the witch built the forty-flight tower, she made very sure to do the whole thing properly. Each flight contains a dreadful monster, ranging from a diamond-scaled dragon to a pack of slavering goblins. Should a prince battle his way to the top, he...
Sergeant Nick Chester has dodged the Geordie gangsters he once feared, is out of hiding and looking forward to a quiet life. But gold fever is creating ill-feeling between prospectors, and a new threat lurks in the form of trigger-happy Americans preparing...
Daisy is a gentle family saga, spanning almost 100 years, from 1887 to 1974. It is set in Alabama, Harlem and London and incorporates some of the evils of society -- poverty, racism and snobbery -- as well as some of the greatest that life has to offer...
With no instruction manuals to refer to, Digsy decided to have a drink and ponder the question when it tragically did so, which led eventually to his moonshine business, which led in turn to his forthcoming delivery to The Order's warehouse. New Zealand...
On the 4th May 1866 the General Grant, a 179-foot clipper, came to grief on the cliffs of the Auckland Islands of New Zealand. At the time it was travelling from Melbourne to London carrying 83 passengers and reportedly 2,576 ounces of gold? Robbie, ...
"New Zealand is going into lockdown, and the country's teddy bears have been called upon to become essential workers. They're to take up window duties to comfort children whose lives have been changed by the Covid-19 pandemic. In the seaside suburb o...
Meet Evie, a young woman held captive by a man named Jim in the isolated New Zealand beach town of Maketu. Jim says he's hiding Evie to protect her, that she did something terrible back home in Melbourne. In a house that creaks against the wind, Evie...
"An old crush. A long-lost family member. A magical Labrador and a whole load of ghosts... At least Adeline can't say life is boring! Adeline yearns for family, but for years, the closest she's gotten is her assistance dog, Coco. When a frightening e...
A dark story of justice, morality, and murder when a family seeks justice for the unexplained and unexpected death of a loved one. The family is devastated which drives their determination. The police are suspicious but there is no evidence. They are...
A dying Hitler dictates his memoirs to a personal aide whilst his top commanders plot against each other to see who will become the next Fuhrer. Meanwhile a small resistance group from England tries to smuggle a package across Europe that will help to...
Big Aggie strikes again - the sequel to Big Aggie sails the Gulf - continues the hilarious misadventures of skipper Blanco White as he plies the Hauraki Gulf in his trailer yacht..."--Back cover.
"Georgia Grayson has perfected the art of being two people: a neurosurgeon on track to becoming the first female Director of Neurosurgery at a large London hospital, and a wife and mother. Home is her haven where, with husband Adam's support, she copes...
Jackson Fearnsby's fiftieth year began badly, ended better, and was in between punctuated by a series of seasonal events and anniversaries shared with his friends and family. Set in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1950, this story follows the life of an ordinary...
"Matteo Borgoni is a desperate man. He must succeed if he is to free his beloved wife, held captive by her father in Melbourne. His picture framing skills establish him with the artists of Dunedin in 1863, but he has many doubts, and many more obstacles...
The Archangel of Death and the Archangel of Disease may be gone but their legacy of evil lives on - especially in Africa, where the shambling, rotting creatures called the reborn have gained a glimmer of vicious intelligence. It is up to Titus, archangel...
Lips may lie, but teeth never do At first, Alexa Glock's initial case as a traveling forensic investigator seems straightforward'her expertise in teeth helps her identify the skeletal remains of a hunter found on the remote Stewart Island in New Zealand....
"As the global Covid-19 pandemic reaches the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand, four women find themselves in novel circumstances as healthcare professionals, and in their personal lives. In these new fictional tales from the author of Admissions, we me...
"Walter has set Greta a posthumous challenge that leads her across the world, and so far out of her comfort zone, that she has no choice but to confront who she really is"--Back cover.
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